From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Bastien Nocera To: BlueZ development In-Reply-To: <1200510167.17973.2.camel@teponkone> References: <1200510167.17973.2.camel@teponkone> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:14:50 +0000 Message-Id: <1200510890.26259.52.camel@cookie.hadess.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-gnome ui Reply-To: BlueZ development List-Id: BlueZ development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: bluez-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 21:02 +0200, Teppo Turtiainen wrote: > Hi guys, > > Let me start by saying that I'm a big fan of Bluetooth (6 devices and > counting) and of the work you are doing. > > I am not a user interface designer, but I think that the current UI for > bluez-gnome is pretty awful: There is a Services tab that only geeks > will understand (what actually is a Serial service?), there are buttons > that appear/disapper and change contents depending on which bonded > device is selected, there are non-obvious icons (what does that lock > next to my phone mean? Is my phone locked?), there is no way to initiate > pairing with a new device, for some reason it is necessary to ask the > user for the class of the device when HAL already knows that, etc. I > tried filing bugs for some of the individual issues, but those got > wontfixed, so I thought I'd email the list directly. I marked it as WONTFIX, because I'm not the maintainer. I think the UI is pretty rubbish as well, but it works, which is more than can be said of the previous attempts... > I think the current crappiness is even more evident when compared to the > brilliant design for BluetoothManager that was up at live.gnome.org. [1] > Is there any chance of working towards the more non-geek-friendly vision > presented on that old BluetoothManager page? Well, I did that original mockup, so I think it's good as well ;) > [1] http://live.gnome.org/BluetoothManager?action=recall&rev=16 Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel